SAINTS OCTOBER 18

SAINTS OCTOBER 18  "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy

ST. LUKE, EVANGELIST, PHYSICIAN, PATRON OF ARTISTS Of the four Evangelists, St Luke is the best at drawing descriptions of individual personalities. He probably owes his reputation as an artist to this characteristic. St. Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician. 

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St. Justus of Beauvais, Roman Catholic Martyr. Justus was reported to the authorities to be a Christian magician, and soldiers were sent to arrest him. When confronted at Beauvais, Justus, who was nine years old, confessed that he was a Christian, and he was immediately beheaded Feast day is October 18th.

St. Gwen, 5th century. Widowed martyr sometimes called Blanche, Wenn, or Candida. She was the daughter of a Chieftain, Brychan or Brecknock. Saxon pagans martyred Gwen at Talgrarth.   

St. Keyna, 5th century. Welsh virgin, also called Keyne or Ceinwen. She is possibly one of the twentyfour children of the chieftain Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. Keyna supposedly became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somerset, England St. Cadoc, her nephew, convinced her to return to Wales. She founded churches in southern Wales and in Cornwall, England, and possibly in Somerset.

  

St. Monon, 645 A.D. Scottish pilgrim who moved to Ardennes, France, to become a hermit in that area. Monon was murdered at Nassogne, in Luxembourg, by a group of unrepentant sinners.

St. Peter of Alcantara, Roman Catholic Fransican Priest. Feast day is October 18th.